Improvement in vapor-burners



C. E. BALL.

Vapor-Burner.

Patented Aug. 31,1875.

CHARLES E. BALL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR-BURNERS.

Speciicatiou forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,l50, dated August 31, 1875; application filed July 22,1874.

To all whom it may concern: common air through orifices (l in pipe I only, Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BALL, of and conducts the air into cap B and through Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia and draft-wheel T, which serves to distribute it State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain equably over the interior surfaces of the wire- Improvements in Apparatus for Carburetingcloth cylinders in pipes C and H, where it Common Air, of which the following is a takes up as much ofthe hydrocarbon Huid as specification: it will hold, and then, partly by the force of My invention relates to the construction of the draft caused by the heat from the burner parts, and the combination and arrangement L, and by partly its own gravity, the carbonof the parts, of a machine for carbonizing ized air will be forced down pipeIand through common air and burning the same, for the the Argand burner L. e v purpose of producing light and these my The upper end of pipe I is provided with a improvements will be hereinafter described close horizontal partition, as shown in Fig. 5, with reference to the accompanying drawings, so that the air which enters it through orilice in whichd must traverse its entire length, and enter Figure 1 represents a side View, in perspecpipe C through cap B. tive, of an entire apparatus embracing my improvements; Fig. 2, a like view of the pipe C, broken away on one side in order to display the cotton packing inclosed in its interior, and the cylinder of wire cloth or gauze placed within the packing, and also a face view of the draft-wheel T in position in cap B of the same pipe; Fig. 3, two different side views of the valve-tube D 5 Fig. 4, a vertical central section of the top portion of pipe I, and a like view of valve-pipe D, displaying valve-pipe to the right or left the admission of the horizontal partition therein. fresh air is partially or wholly out off, and the The containing-vessel E may be made of feeding' of carbonized air to the burner L is glass or any other suitable material, and may likewise partially or wholly cut off. Thus both be filled with the hydrocarbon fluid to be used operations can be regulated at will. through neck n and vertical pipe H, which As before stated, the burner L, by its flame last-named pipe is connected at its top end by under pipe T and cap B, will add force to the a tight joint with horizontal pipe C, and its currents through the machine. lower end extends down to a point near the lVha-t I claim as my invention, and desire to bottom of the containing-vessel E, and a tight secure by Letters Patent, isjoint is made between the containing-vessel l. The combination of the pipes H and C, E and the vertical pipe H at P. Pipes H and and packing S, and wiregauze cylinderB con- C both inclose concentric cylinders of wiretained in them, substantially as and fer the gauze, of considerably smaller diameters than purpose described. their own, in order that space may be left be- 2. The combination of the valve D, the

feeding of the earbonized air, a valve-pipe, D, having two holes therein, d and e, is inserted into the top end of pipe I, which is also provided with two eorrespondin g holes, so that when the valve-pipe is so turned that its holes are opposite to the holes in pipe I, the common air flows into pipe A through holed, and the carbonized air flows from pipe C into pipe I through hole e. Now, by simply turning the tween their interior surfaces and the exterior pipes A, I, and C, constructed vand arranged surfaces of said wire-gauze cylinders, as shown substantially as and for the purpose described. in Fig. 2, where S indicates a cotton packing which lls that space, and R indicates the cylinder of wire-gauze.

` The upper or left-hand end of supply-pipe A branches out from feed-pipe I, and receives CHARLES E. BALL. Witnesses:

MORRIS NEALE, JN0. D. PATTEN.

In order to regulate the production and 

